It has been a while since I posted on my blog - in fact, I
believe this is the first time ever that more than one month
passed between posts since I started blogging. There are a couple
of reasons for the lag:

Matt Casters, Jos van Dongen and me have spent a lot of
time finalizing our forthcoming book, Pentaho Kettle Solutions (Wiley, ISBN:
978-0-470-63517-9). The book is currently being produced, and
should be available according to schedule in early September
2010. If you're interested, you might like to read …

After a good while (I can’t search my Twitter
stream) on Chrome I’m switching back to Firefox as my primary
browser, and actually uninstalled Chrome. Why? I was getting the
“Oh snap” failure page all the time, even on Google’s own
Youtube! The only support I was pointed to was this
page, and when I followed the instructions there when I
restarted Chrome everything was gone. The sentence “copy the
relevant files from the “Backup User Data” folder to your new
“User Data” folder.” is useless when you consider the folder has
50+ files to sort through and I wasn’t sure which one was causing
my previous problems. So back to Firefox, and thanks to Xmarks all of my
stuff is there. …

*Jacobsen v. Katzer and open source impact
*Intel, Nokia team up for MeeGo open source OS
*Open source continues in embedded space
*MongoDB and the advent of the NoSQL databases
*Copyrights, complexities, control and conflict

A bumper CAOS Links rounding up the news and views from the
festive period, including: Red Hat revenue up 22% in 3Q. Alan Cox
departs for Intel. Evolving open source business strategies. The
commercialization opportunity around OpenOffice.org. And more.

So Google
Chrome – Google's attempt at an open source browser, came out
yesterday and I took it out for a spin. At its heart is the
Webkit engine (also open source) and Google Gears, powered by SQLite (can MySQL rival
SQLite in applications like this?). Here are my thoughts.

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